MS. Lyell 58
Anselm of Canterbury; Honorius Augustodunensis, etc.
Contents
Language(s): Latin
Pr. F. S. Schmitt, S. Anselmi Cant. Arch. Opera Omnia I, 1946, pp. 205–26.
Pr. Schmitt, op. cit. II, pp. 245–88.
In the space left blank on fol. 32v is an addition in a contemporary hand: it is a short extract on Triumphus, trophaeum, palma, laurea, torques, hedera.
[MS. Lyell 56, 12th cent., fol. 168, also has this reading].
PL 40 col. 1003–32.
With an additional passage on fol. 55–6:
Inserted between cap. 37–8 of the PL text, pr. J. A. Endres, Honorius Augustodunensis, Kempten, 1906, pp. 138–40, from Munich clm. 22225.
On fol. 33 and 33v a later (15th-cent.) hand has added ‘beati Augustini’ in red to the red headings. These additions have been crossed out, and a note in another hand of the 15th cent, reads (fol. 33r) ‘videtur hic liber editus per Honorium ex suo in De luminaribus ecclesie et ex stilo’; (fol. 33v) ‘Honorii ut videtur ex stilo et ex suo in De luminaribus ecclesie’. B. Pez, Thesaurus Anecdotorum Novissimus II, 1721, p. vii, cites this early identification of Honorius as found in our MS., which was then at Melk.
Ends fol. 65v, part of the page left blank. These three quaestiones were pr. from our MS. (then at Melk) by Endres, op. cit., pp. 150–4 and see p. 55.
This is the beginning of the collection of sentences pr. Weisweiler in ‘Das Schrifttum der Schule Anselms von Laon und Wilhelm von Champeaux in deutschen Bibliotheken’, Beiträge xxxiii. 1–2 (1936), 260–9. In our MS. it is written in the form of sixteen quaestiones ; the divisions do not always correspond to those of Weisweiler’s edition and there are textual variants, some of which are closer to the version of this collection incorporated in the Summa ‘Prima rerum origo’, printed by Weisweiler, op. cit., p. 174.
The first of five quaestiones also found in Munich clm. 23440, fol. 84v–85v, and pr. O. Lottin, ‘Nouveaux fragments théologiques de l’école d’Anselme de Laon’, R.T.A.M. 13 (1946), pp. 219–20, nos. 322–6.
The first of three quaestiones probably by William of Champeaux, also found together in MS. Heidelberg Univ. Sal. 7. 103, fol. 122–123v. Pr. Lottin, Psychologie et morale v, 1959, pp. 208–10 nos. 258–60.
The part of this quaestio from ‘Sciendum est’ is found in a number of MSS., including the Heidelberg MS. cit., fol. 123v–124, and is pr. Weisweiler, op. tit., pp. 112–13; Lottin, Psychologie v, p. 243, no. 304.
Clearly related to the four collections pr. Weisweiler, op. tit., pp. 281–358: some of the sentences are the same, others are very similar:
A conflation of two sentences pr. Weisweiler, op. cit., pp. 282–3; 290.
Pr. Weisweiler, op. tit., p. 345 (shorter version on pp. 283–4).
Cf. Weisweiler, op. tit., pp. 299–300.
A version of Weisweiler, op. tit., p. 300.
Cf. Weisweiler, op. tit., p. 305.
Cf. the short quaestio from MS. Zürich C. 61, pr. Weisweiler, op. cit., p. 163.
A version of part of a sentence in Weisweiler, op. tit., p. 296, ll. 3–17.
Pr. Weisweiler, op. tit., p. 305.
Cf. Weisweiler, op. tit., p. 298.
It is an abbreviation of St. Augustine, De diversis quaestionibus ad Simplicianum, Lib. 11, Q. in: PL 40 col. 142–4.
Preceded (fol. 83v) by extracts from Cassiodorus, De anima, caps. 1; 11; iv; v and vi, headed ‘De anima hominis’ (‘Cassiodorus’ added in the margin)
PL 70 col. 1282A11–C11; 1284A15-C2; 1287A11-B12; 1283A7–14; 1284D9–1285A3; 1289A11–1290A3; 1290A14-C9; 1291B10–1292A5.
Honorius’s work (no heading or break in the text):
This work was identified in our MS. when it was at Melk by B. Pez, op. cit., pp. viii-ix; see also Endres, op. cit., pp. 52–5. The work is also in Erlangen University MS. 227, 12th cent., from Heilsbronn, fol. 150v–168v; see H. Fischer, Cat. Hss. Univ. Erlangen I, 1928, p. 274. Now edited by Marie-Odile Garrigues, Recherches Augustiniennes XII (1977), 237–77.
This is a version of parts of Honorius Augustodunensis’ Inevitabile in its second, revised form, on which see F. Baeumker, ‘Das Inevitabile des H.A.’, Beiträge xiii, 6,1914. It is the equivalent of PL 172 col. 1203C2–1205A10; 1206C4–1207A12; 1205A11–D2; 1206A15–C3; 1205D3–1206A14; 1207A13–1209C8; 1217D6–1218A8; 1221B14–C9.
Physical Description
Collation
Layout
Written space 145 × 85 mm. : 26 long lines ruled with a hard point
Hand(s)
Written in Austria or Germany in the 12th cent.
Decoration
Main initials and headings in red.
Some smaller initials in brown decorated with red dots.
Up to fol. 68r the scribe's marginal captions describing the contents of the text have decorative red frames.
Binding
19th-cent. calf binding with flowers and device of crossed keys stamped in gold on the spine.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Formerly belonged to the Abbey of Melk, Austria, and is probably the MS. described as B. 102 in the 1483 Melk catalogue; see Gottlieb, Mittelalt. Bibl. kat. Österreichs 1, 1915, p. 176 1. 33–6. It is inscribed: ‘Monasterii Melicensis’ and ‘lit. D. 25’ on fol. 1, as well as having later library stamps, and on the binding the shelfmark: ‘850 (P. 40)’.
Bought by Lyell from E. P. Goldschmidt and Co. in March 1943.
Chosen as one of the hundred manuscripts bequeathed to the Bodleian by Lyell in 1948.
Record Sources
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Bibliography
Abbreviations
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Last Substantive Revision
2020-12-16: Andrew Dunning Revised from description by Albinia de la Mare.